tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81577816621087812262024-03-08T06:58:27.995-08:00The Poetic Works of Headington BardAlex Arishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09495415061897599638noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157781662108781226.post-64721896446113754062011-07-17T06:02:00.000-07:002019-08-06T10:36:32.771-07:00I am already here !<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ah ! Poetry ! Many a word that I have written and read for many a year, even if I've not read as much poetry from other authors. This doesn't sound right does it ? But to be honest, I may have read hundreds of poems over the last few years with three known authors that come to mind : Edgar Allen Poe, Pam Ayres and </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Eleanor Farjeon</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allen_Poe">Edgar Allen Poe</a> for the Raven ( re-realised from an episode of the Simpsons ), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Ayres">Pam Ayres</a> for her witty verses, a known poet from the 1970's and 1980's and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Eleanor Farjeon</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for the poem, Cats Sleep Anywhere. The links are sourced from Wikipedia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since I my teenager years, I have written hundreds of poems, that being any subject and modestly sized. Short enough for a quick read and usually in an understandable format or theme. By chance, I do have an compilation of my works already available to buy as well, Inspirations by Alexander Aris, both in paperback and as an eBook. I bet you could see that coming with a quick plug of my works. But in all honesty, this book hasn't sold many copies at all, if fact one and that was by myself. I also sold a pre-published proof copy to a cousin, buy would this count as a sale ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are couple of place where you can buy my book :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amazon UK : [ <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspirations-Alexander-Aris/dp/1409219569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310908614&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspirations-Alexander-Aris/dp/1409219569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310908614&sr=8-1</a> ]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amazon : [ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inspirations-Alexander-Aris/dp/1409219569/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1310908729&sr=8-2">http://www.amazon.com/Inspirations-Alexander-Aris/dp/1409219569/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1310908729&sr=8-2</a> ]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lulu : [ <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/arispoetry">http://stores.lulu.com/arispoetry</a> ]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite all of this, I find writing poetry a great stress reliever and a unique license promote feelings about a situation or subject. About ten years ago, I was writing lots and the energy within each poem or piece was amazing. Then, after writing so many pieces, I stopped. I felt like I was repeating myself, even if it was in a different vane. So, I have decided to slowly start writing again, even if the pace is a little slow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I find the most unusual about poetry, is when an idea comes to you in the strangest place, for instance, this poem during Harry Potter 7 Part 2 :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I use you, you use me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are paralled in synchronicity</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bridging a gap in persons wrong,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can savour a person in short or long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A smaller percentage if the top end is low,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A larger domination if the higher is unknown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Riddled by desperation in a want or need,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is another one reason for incesant greed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe my mind was thinking about money the time or was it Harry Potter ? Probably the latter. Anyway, part of my book, Inspirations, has three stories in verse and one of them is Dexter-7. I actually recorded this over 10 years ago as a project for my then website. It's now available in one audio segment and through YouTube. Have listen and hear the story unfold and by the way, I had to record each semi-segment several times back then because of bloopers. Now I know how voice over people feel after each retake !</span></div>
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